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Australia (2/5)

This is also part of this series: Human Journey (5)

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Subjects: Anthropology, Evolution, Genetics, History, Natural History

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2009
Available in French: No

It’s a huge puzzle, how our ancient ancestors made it as far as Australia from Africa, a journey that involved at least one sea crossing. But it’s even more puzzling that they arrived there long before our species reached the much closer continent of Europe.

Why, having survived a supervolcano and fought off other hostile humans (as the evidence suggests), did they risk it all by making a perillous ocean crossing? Apart from some very ancient human remains in Australia that confirm the arrival of our species, there is very little to go on.

In this episode, we discover new evidence for this incredible journey.

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